Iran-Made Robot Detects Food Pollution

“The pollution detection robot used in food industry is the most important knowledge-based product of the incubator center of a knowledge-based firm stationed at the Islamic Azad University’s Hamedan branch which was presented as one of the top 30 national projects in last year's research week,” Mehdi Askari Kia, the head of the incubator center of the Islamic Azad University’s Hamedan branch, told ANA.

“The machine can resolve the 10-year challenge of the food industry in Iran, and it was designed and built for the first time in the country with the help of artificial intelligence,” he added.

Askari Kia said that the robot increases the speed of production line four times.

In a relevant development earlier this year, researchers at an Iranian knowledge-based company developed a kit to detect harmful and excessive anti-biotic in milk.

 “Kits to quickly detect anti-biotic in milk, which is used in the dairy industry, are one of the achievements of this knowledge -based company,” said Roya Mirzayee, one of the researchers.

A lot of antibiotics are used to treat while dairy cattle in sick, but the antibiotics will be residues in the raw milk. There are some rapid tests for easy detection using special kits.

“These kits are used in the dairy industry to measure the volume of antibiotics in milk,” she added.

Mirzayee noted that their manufactured kit is capable of measuring and detecting tetracycline and Beta-lactams in milk, adding, “If the volume of these two antibiotics in milk is high, it will cause the fermentation not to take place and as a result it causes damage to the dairy industry.”

She went on to say that the kit could also be used at home by households.

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